# Deaths in April 2003
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2003.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## April 2003
### 1

* Booker Bradshaw, 61, American record producer, actor, and Motown executive, heart attack.
* Lloyd L. Brown, 89, American writer, activist and labor organizer.
* Richard Caddel, 53, English poet, publisher and editor, a key figure in the British Poetry Revival, leukemia.
* Leslie Cheung, 46, Hong Kong actor and singer, suicide by jumping.
* Marcel Ernzer, 77, Luxembourgish cyclist.
* Jean-Yves Escoffier, 52, French cinematographer (Good Will Hunting, Rounders, Nurse Betty), heart attack.
* Sven Holmberg, 85, Swedish actor.
* Robert M. Levine, 62, American historian and academic, cancer.
* Mutsuhiro Watanabe, 85, Japanese war criminal during World War II.
* Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen, 89, Dutch mathematician, known for his books on Riesz spaces.

### 2

* Seymour Friedman, 85, American film director.
* Kaveh Golestan, 52, Iranian photojournalist and artist, land mine.
* Terenci Moix, 61, Spanish writer, pulmonary emphysema.
* Joan Phipson, 90, Australian children's writer.
* György Révész, 75, Hungarian screenwriter and film director.
* Harold S. Sawyer, 83, American politician (U.S. Representative for Michigan's 5th congressional district), throat cancer .
* Edwin Starr, 61, American soul singer, heart attack.
* Sékou Touré, 68, Ivorian football player.
* Michael Wayne, 68, American film producer and son of John Wayne, heart failure from complications of lupus.

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* Homer Banks, 61, American songwriter and record producer ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"), cancer.
* Arthur Guyton, 83, American physiologist, traffic collision.
* Scott Hain, 32, American convict, execution by lethal injection.
* Gunadasa Kapuge, 57, Sri Lankan musician, fall.

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* Anthony Caruso, 86, American actor.
* Fred J. Cook, 92, American investigative journalist.
* Izzat Ghazzawi, 51, Palestinian writer.
* Abdul Kadir, 54, Indonesian footballer, kidney failure.
* Michael Kelly, 46, American journalist, columnist and magazine editor, war-related vehicular accident.
* Helmut Knochen, 93, German Nazi official and commander of the SiPo and SD.
* Billy McPhail, 75, Scottish football player, Alzheimer's disease.
* J. Quigg Newton, 91, American lawyer and politician.
* Resortes, 87, Mexican comedian, emphysema.
* Paul Ray Smith, 33, United States Army sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action.

### 5

* Kirby Doyle, 70, American poet.
* Seymour Lubetzky, 104, American cataloging theorist and librarian.
* Frédéric Kibassa Maliba, 63, Congolese politician, heart attack.
* Federico Pizarro, 76, Argentine football player.

### 6

* David Bloom, 39, American television journalist (NBC News, Weekend Today), pulmonary embolism.
* Anita Borg, 54, American computer scientist, advocate for the advancement of women in computer science, brain cancer.
* José Emeterio Rivas, Colombian radio journalist killed after publicly accusing local officials of corruption, gun shots.
* Gerald Emmett Carter, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Toronto (1978-1990).
* Aleksandr Fatyushin, 52, Russian actor, pneumonia.
* Susan French, 91, American actress.
* Leon Levy, 77, American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist.
* Nicole Loraux, 59, French historian of classical Athens.
* Vic Metcalfe, 81, English football player.
* Babatunde Olatunji, 75, Nigerian drummer, recorded Drums of Passion, diabetes.
* Robert John Pratt, 96, Canadian comedian and politician.
* Princess Tenagnework, 91, Ethiopian royal and eldest child of Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw.

### 7

* Cecile de Brunhoff, 99, French pianist and teacher, created the children's book character Babar the Elephant.
* David Greene, 82, British television and film director, pancreatic cancer.
* Jutta Hipp, 78, Germen-American jazz pianist and composer, pancreatic cancer.
* Maurice Kouandété, 70, Beninese military officer and politician.
* Julio Anguita Parrado, 32, Spanish journalist and war correspondent (El Mundo), missile strike.
* Robin Winks, 72, American professor, historian, author and diplomat.

### 8

* Kathie Browne, 72, American film and television actress (Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Star Trek, The Love Boat).
* Patrick Fani Chakaipa, 70, Zimbabwean prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Harare (1976-2003).
* Charles Douglass, 93, Mexican-American sound engineer, credited as the inventor of the laugh track, pneumonia.
* Dee Gibson, 79, American basketball player.
* Maki Ishii, 66, Japanese composer of contemporary classical music, cancer.
* Spider Martin, 64, American photographer, suicide.
* Franz Rosenthal, 88, German-American professor of Semitic languages.
* Bing Russell, 76, American actor and baseball club owner, cancer.
* Correspondents killed in the Battle of Baghdad:
** Tareq Ayyoub, 35, Jordanian journalist for Al Jazeera, missile strike.
** José Couso Permuy, 37, Spanish cameraman, missile strike.
** Taras Protsyuk, 35, Ukrainian cameraman, tank fire.

### 9

* Earl Bramblett, 61, American mass murderer, execution by electrocution.
* Ray Murray, 85, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Orioles).
* Rod Navarro, 67, Filipino actor.
* Jorge Oteiza, 94, Basque Spanish sculptor, painter, and writer.
* Robert Wallace Wilkins, 96, American medical researcher.
* Abraham Zabludovsky, 78, Mexican modernist architect (Rufino Tamayo Museum, National Auditorium).
* Vera Zorina, 86, Norwegian ballerina, actress and choreographer (The Goldwyn Follies, Star Spangled Rhythm), stroke.
* Wu Zuguang, 85, Chinese playwright, film director and social critic, stroke.

### 10

* Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, 40, Iraqi Shia cleric, stabbed.
* Chumy Chúmez, 75, Spanish cartoon humorist, writer and film director, liver cancer.
* Little Eva, 59, American pop singer (The Loco-Motion), cervical uterine cancer.
* Jack Fincher, 72, American screenwriter and journalist.
* Aatos Fred, 85, Finnish chess player, two-time Finnish Chess Championship winner (1947, 1955).
* Aubrey Jones, 91, British politician.
* Franco Valle, 63, Italian boxer (bronze medal in middleweight boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics).

### 11

* Vasyl Barka, 94, Ukrainian-American poet, writer, and literary critic.
* John Nevill Eliot, 90, English entomologist.
* Cecil Howard Green, 102, American businessman and founder of Texas Instruments.
* Siddiq Manzul, 71, Sudanese football player.
* Brian Nelson, 55, Northern Irish paramilitary intelligence chief, brain haemorrhage.
* Lucy Saroyan, 57, American actress and photographer, liver cirrhosis.

### 12

* Clarence W. Blount, 81, American politician.
* Charles Janeway, 60, American immunologist.
* Sydney Lassick, 80, American film actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), complications of diabetes.
* Štefan Matlák, 69, Slovak football player.
* Chalom Messas, 94, Moroccan rabbi and writer.

### 13

* Farouk Afero, 63, Pakistani-Indonesian film actor, cancer.
* Majid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 64, Saudi prince and member of the House of Saud.
* Sean Delaney, 58, American musician, complications following strokes.
* Allen Eager, 76, American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist, liver cancer.
* D. Gale Johnson, 86, American economist and an expert on Russia and China.
* Lucy Shoe Meritt, 96, American classical archaeologist.
* Elder Tadej Štrbulović, 88, Serbian Orthodox elder and author.

### 14

* Pierre Blondiaux, 81, French rower (silver medal in men's coxless four at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Al Epperly, 84, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Addie McPhail, 97, American film actress.
* Jyrki Otila, 61, Finnish quiz show judge and member of the European Parliament.
* Milla Sannoner, 64, Italian film and television actress.

### 15

* Betty Baskcomb, 88, British actress (Everything in the Garden, Afternoon of a Nymph, Doctor on the Go).
* Don Bunce, 54, American football quarterback (Stanford, 1972 Rose Bowl MVP) and orthopedic surgeon, heart attack.
* Erin Fleming, 61, Canadian actress, suicide by gunshot.
* Robert Helmick, 66, American president of the US Olympic Committee, cardiac failure.
* Rebeca Iturbide, 78, Mexican-American actress, gastrointestinal perforation.
* Maurice Rapf, 88, American screenwriter and professor of film studies.
* Franco Scandurra, 91, Italian actor.
* Leonard Tose, 88, American sports executive, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles (1969-1985).
* Keith Walwyn, 47, Kittitian footballer, complications during heart surgery.
* Theodore Weiss, 86, American poet, professor and literary magazine editor.

### 16

* Jack Donohue, 71, American-Canadian basketball coach.
* Isao Iwabuchi, 69, Japanese football player.
* Graham Jarvis, 72, Canadian actor (Misery, Fame, 7th Heaven), multiple myeloma.
* Samuel J. LeFrak, 85, American real estate tycoon.
* Ray Mendoza, 73, Mexican professional wrestler, kidney failure.
* Lili Muráti, 88, Hungarian film and stage actress.
* Danny O'Dea, 91, British actor.
* Jewell Young, 90, American basketball player (Purdue University, Indianapolis Kautskys, Oshkosh All-Stars).

### 17

* Mario Sandoval Alarcón, 79, Guatemalan politician.
* Robert Atkins, 72, American nutritionist (Atkins Diet), accident.
* H. B. Bailey, 66, American NASCAR driver, heart attack.
* Jean-Pierre Dogliani, 60, French football player.
* John Paul Getty Jr., 70, British philanthropist and book collector, chest infection.
* Earl King, 69, American Blues musician/songwriter, complications of diabetes.
* Koji Kondo, 30, Japanese football player.
* Yiannis Latsis, 92, Greek shipping tycoon.
* Ong Poh Lim, 81, Malayan/Singaporean badminton player.
* Jozef Schell, 67, Belgian biologist.
* Hilde Sessak, 87, German actress.
* Graham Stuart Thomas, 94, British horticultural artist, author and garden designer.
* Peter Cathcart Wason, 78, British cognitive psychologist, founded the study of the psychology of reasoning.
* Sergei Yushenkov, 52, Russian politician, member of Russian Parliament and critic of President Vladimir Putin, homicide.

### 18

* Rudolf Brunnenmeier, 62, German football player, alcohol-related issues.
* Edgar F. Codd, 79, English computer pioneer, heart failure.
* Jean Drucker, 61, French television executive, heart attack.
* Kiril Gospodinov, 68, Bulgarian stage and film actor.
* Toni Hagen, 85, Swiss geologist.
* Emil Loteanu, 66, Soviet and Moldovan film director.
* Diego Ronchini, 67, Italian road racing cyclist.
* Nguyễn Đình Thi, 78, Vietnamese writer, poet and composer.
* Juan Bautista Villalba, 78, Paraguayan football player.

### 19

* Mirza Tahir Ahmad, 74, Pakistani spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim movement.
* Cholly Atkins, 89, American dancer and choreographer, pancreatic cancer.
* Nazeh Darwazi, Palestinian freelance cameraman, shot by Israeli soldier.
* Denise Ramsden, 51, English Olympian sprint athlete.
* Aurelio Sabattani, 90, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Chris Zachary, 59, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s / Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers), cancer.

### 20

* Debbie Barham, 26, English comedy writer, anorexia nervosa.
* Johnny Douglas, 82, English musician.
* Len Duquemin, 78, British football player.
* Teddy Edwards, 78, American jazz tenor saxophonist, prostate cancer.
* Daijiro Kato, 26, Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, racing accident.
* Bernard Katz, 92, German-British Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist.
* Henri Lemaître, 81, Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Richard Proenneke, 86, American naturalist, conservationist, and writer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Bertram Ross, 82, American dancer and choreographer.
* Cole Weston, 84, American photographer.

### 21

* Robert Blackburn, 82, American artist and printmaker, one of America's foremost fine art lithographers.
* Balwant Gargi, 86, Indian dramatist, theatre director, and short story writer.
* Ivan Hausen, 75, Brazilian Olympic track and field athlete.
* Nina Simone, 70, American jazz singer, known as the "High Priestess of Soul", breast cancer.

### 22

* Felice Bryant, 77, American songwriter ("Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie", "Raining in My Heart").
* James H. Critchfield, 86, American CIA operative during the Cold War, pancreatic cancer.
* Martha Griffiths, 91, American congresswoman and women's rights activist.
* Andrea King, 84, American actress.
* Ola H. Kveli, 81, Norwegian politician.
* Mike Larrabee, 69, American athlete, two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics, pancreatic cancer.
* Len Reid, 86, Australian fighter pilot and politician.
* Fred Schaub, 42, German football player, car accident.
* Yuriy Voynov, 71, Soviet and Ukrainian football player and manager.
* Maria Wine, 90, Swedish-Danish poet and writer.

### 23

* Abram Bergson, 89, American economist.
* Jim Browne, 72, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Denver Nuggets).
* Hansgeorg Bätcher, 89, German decorated Luftwaffe bomber ace during World War II.
* Fernand Fonssagrives, 93, French photographer.
* Raymond Galle, 89, French stage and film actor.
* Guy Mountfort, 97, British advertising executive and ornithologist.
* Austin Wright, 80, American novelist, literary critic and academic.

### 24

* Bob Dunn, 56, British Conservative Party politician.
* Nüzhet Gökdoğan, 92, Turkish astronomer, mathematician and academic.
* Yuri Kholopov, 70, Russian musicologist and educator.
* Gino Orlando, 73, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest.
* Belus Smawley, 85, American basketball player (Appalachian State, St. Louis Bombers, Baltimore Bullets) and coach.
* Fuzz White, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, New York Giants).

### 25

* Viktor Bushuev, 69, Soviet weightlifter (gold medal in men's lightweight weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics).
* Lynn Chadwick, 88, English sculptor and artist.
* Jaime Silva Gómez, 67, Colombian footballer.
* Ted Joans, 74, American jazz poet, trumpeter, and painter, diabetes.
* Samson Kitur, 37, Kenyan athlete and an Olympic medalist.
* André Perraudin, 88, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate.
* Borislav Đurović, 51, Montenegrin football player.

### 26

* Bernhard Baier, 90, German water polo player (silver medal in men's water polo at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Rosemary Brown, 72, Canadian politician (NDP), first black woman elected to a provincial legislature, myocardial infarction, heart attack.
* Mohammed Ghazali, 78, Pakistan Air Force officer and cricket player.
* Yun Hyon-seok, 18, South Korean LGBT poet, writer, and activist, suicide by hanging.
* David Lavender, 93, American historian and writer.
* Danny Napoleon, 61, American baseball player (New York Mets).
* Edward Max Nicholson, 98, British environmentalist, a founder of the World Wildlife Fund.
* Peter Stone, 73, American screenwriter (Charade, Father Goose, 1776), Oscar and Tony-winner, pulmonary fibrosis.

### 27

* Peter M. Bowers, 84, American aeronautical engineer, journalist and aviation historian.
* Edward Gaylord, 83, American businessman, media mogul and philanthropist, cancer.
* Edward Loyden, 79, British politician.
* Piet Roozenburg, 78, Dutch draughts player.
* Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, 88, American actress and Broadway stage manager, wife of John Steinbeck.
* Dorothee Sölle, 73, German liberation theologian, heart attack.
* Juha Tiainen, 47, Finnish hammer thrower and Olympic champion, pneumonia.

### 28

* Ira Herskowitz, 56, American phage and yeast geneticist, pancreatic cancer.
* Ciccio Ingrassia, 80, Italian actor, comedian and film director, heart attack.
* Carmelo Morales, 72, Spanish racing cyclist.
* André Muhirwa, Burundian politician and Prime Minister.
* Charlie Tolar, 65, American gridiron football player.

### 29

* Ron Barclay, 88, New Zealand politician (member of New Zealand Parliament for New Plymouth).
* Janko Bobetko, 84, Croatian general, hailed as a hero of Croatia but charged with war crimes by the U.N.
* John Gilbert Hurst, 75, British archaeologist and pioneer of mediaeval archaeology.
* Etti Plesch, 89, Austro-Hungarian countess, huntress, racehorse owner, and socialite.
* Vasily Tolstikov, 85, Soviet diplomat and Communist Party official.
* Jerry Williams, 79, American radio host, a pioneer of talk radio.

### 30

* Gbenga Adeboye, 43, Nigerian singer, comedian and radio host, kidney-related disease.
* Ferdinand P. Beer, 87, French-American mechanical engineer and university professor.
* Possum Bourne, 47, New Zealand rally car driver, racing accident.
* Aureliano Chaves, 74, Brazilian politician.
* Chris Crowe, 63, English football player.
* Vasile Deheleanu, 92, Romanian football player.
* Lionel Wilson, 79, American voice actor (Courage the Cowardly Dog), pneumonia.